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“CS: GO” is currently preparing for the 2021 PGL Major in Stockholm that’s scheduled for late October 2021. Even with VAC’s relative efficiency when it comes to detecting and apprehending illegal software, there are still players who encounter cheaters in their regular gaming sessions. The recent changes to the VAC ban policy may not directly affect the greater “CS: GO” community, but the threat of cheaters going rampant in the game is not entirely new.
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One prominent cheating scandal in the professional scene involved a number of coaches who abused a camera bug to give their teams an advantage over their enemies back in 2020, as per Forbes. The number of banned cheaters have already reached the million mark back in 2019, including a number of professional players. As with other games in its genre, “CS: GO” isn’t safe from cheaters. “Counter Strike: Global Offensive” is a massively popular FPS that sees millions of unique players online on a daily basis. VAC-banned accounts will still have restrictions that will hamper a banned player’s ability to play the game competitively, as with the rest of the restrictions that come with the ban.Ĭounter-Strike: Global Offensive Photo: Valve However, accounts that have been banned five years prior to the event or accounts that have been banned after participating in an event will still not be able to play. Previously banned accounts will now be able to join events sponsored by Valve.
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The primary reason for the VAC policy changes was to update the status of accounts with year-long bans as part of the new RMR season. Some of the changes made to VAC’s ban policy allowed blocked players to return to the game as per GameRant, essentially lifting their banned statuses and potentially reintroducing a big wave of cheaters back into “CS: GO.” This update to the ban system was a deliberate decision made by the developers according to one of their recent blog posts. Players who were previously banned for cheating in “Counter Strike: Global Offensive” were recently given the opportunity to play on their blocked accounts once again after a recent update to Valve Anti-Cheat.
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Hopefully, ScriptKid’s software will deter some cheaters from trying to use cheats in CS:GO, but at the very least, we are treated to some hilarious bloopers in the video above. From the perspective of non-cheating teammates, it simply looks as though the cheaters are throwing the game by killing themselves or throwing away their weapons. In this case, the software will obviously punish cheaters, but it will have the secondary effect of punishing players on the same team.
Both cases share a similar idea of wanting to help weed out cheaters, though there is a discussion to be had about the ethics about such software. On September 5, TheGamer examined how another individual created a custom bot for Team Fortress 2 that was programmed to hunt down other bots and players who are using cheats. The vigilante software creator is not the first to create a program to target cheaters. RELATED: Valve To “Consider Limitations To Coaching” In Response To CS:GO Coach Exploit Abuse In other cases, a tripwire would take control and throw their primary weapon into areas not accessible by the player, or make them toss grenades directly at their own feet.
On the Vertigo map, stepping onto a certain tile would take control of the character from the player, and throw them off the side of the building to their death. In certain areas, the program would perform an action that would be cataclysmic for the cheater. In either case, they would be easy pickings for players who were not cheating. ScriptKid stated that there would be a 50% chance for a player to enter a “drunken state,” which would invert some of their movement commands, or make them move at a snail’s pace.
In other cases, the fake cheat would cause one of several effects when entering certain areas, such as Bomb sites where a round can be won or lost. If eventually, a player realized that they were not firing, they were left with only the option of shooting from the hip, which is the least viable way to use that type of weapon. For example, players attempting to use their AWP sniper rifle or a similar weapon would hear their weapon firing when scoped, but the weapon would not actually fire. Some of the changes could be considered minor inconveniences, while others would doom a player in a ranked match.